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Myanmar/Burma is still economically isolated. The junta is more interested in keeping control and does little to reduce poverty.
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According to the CIA factbook, Burma spends 39 million dollars on its military, and has 11 million people that could actually serve in a military....
Assuming that most of the people and parts of the military would be sympathetic to a democracy, I don't see why a US carrier with 50 aircraft, 20,000 marines, and a few stealth B-2s could easily dispatch the janta...Comment
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[harry potter mode]Originally posted by lord of the mark
10 points to whoever guesses who that is - hint, its one that there are lot of threads here about. Second hint, its connected to ashers avatar.
The country which must not be named
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Does that make Che, Aggie, and Tingkai death eaters?
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Burma and Myanmar are apperently different versions of the same name. Different dialects or something, plus different orthographic conventions (the Brits who came up with "Burma" didn't pronounce postvocalic 'r').
ASSK's folks, when writing in English, use "Burma", last I heard.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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